165.灵人有很多状态，若神觉得合适，我们将在别处讨论它们。在此仅提及两种状态，即：⑴众多灵人一起构成一个形式，并联合行动，仿佛他们是一个人；那时，他们同样如同一个人那样说话。天使就这样代表弥赛亚神最小形式的国度。我有时蒙允许看到这一切，甚至清楚看到其集体形式的活动。⑵还有一种状态，当处于这种状态时，他们远离世人，因而处于梦境般的状态，就是诸如人睡着时的那种状态。
165. The conditions of spirits are many, and they will be discussed elsewhere if God the sees fit. Here only these two states ought to be mentioned:
[1] That in which very many together constitute one form, and act conjointly, as though they were one person; and likewise then speak as one. Thus do the angels portray the kingdom of God the Messiah in its least form. I have been allowed from time to time to see this and even, clearly, the activity of their [collective] form.
[2] Then there is the other state, in which they are removed from people on earth and are consequently in a dream-like condition, like the state of a person asleep. 1747, the 24th 1day of August.
Footnotes:
1. The manuscript has the 2nd.
165. There are many states of spirits (concerning which, God Messiah deeming proper, elsewhere). Two only are to be mentioned here, namely, that very many together constitute one form and act conjointly as if they were a one, and they likewise then speak as one; the angels thus represent the Kingdom of God Messiah in its least form. It has sometimes been granted me to perceive this, and also distinctly to perceive the activity of their form. There is also another state, when they are removed from man, and thus in a representative state, such as is the state of man in sleep. 1747, Aug. 2. 1
Footnotes:
1. Apparently a slip for 24.
165. Plures sunt status spirituum, de quibus, dignante Deo Messia, alibi, hi bini solum hic recensendi sunt, nempe quod perplures simul unam formam constituant, et agant conjunctim, sicut unus esset, similiter 1
tunc ut unus loquuntur; angeli sic repraesentant Regnum Dei Messiae 2
in minima forma; hoc aliquoties percipere mihi datum est, et quidem distincte eorum formae activitatem: status etiam alius est, quod removeantur ab hominibus, et sic in statu repraesentativo sunt, qualis est status hominis in somno. 1747, d. 2 3
Aug.
Footnotes:
1. The Manuscript has similitur
2. The Manuscript has Messia
3. sic manuscript forte pro 24